A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch a robotic cargo ship packed with tons of supplies to the International Space Station on Thursday (July 29), and you can see the launch live.
Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, will launch the unmanned Progress 76 supply ship to the station at 10:26 am EDT (1426 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where local time will be at 7:26 pm You can see the live launch here and on the Space.com home page, courtesy of NASA TV.
Progress 76 carries nearly three tons of food, thrusters, and vital supplies for the crew of five Expedition 63 members on the International Space Station. The spacecraft should take a little more than three hours to reach the station, according to NASA.
Related: How Russia’s Progress spaceships work (infographic)
Docking is scheduled for 1:47 pm EDT (1,447 GMT), and the webcast of that NASA event will take place at 1 pm EDT (1,700 GMT). You can also watch that event on Space.com.
“Progress 76 will remain docked at the station for more than four months, and will depart in December to exorbitant in Earth’s atmosphere,” NASA officials said in a statement.
Russia’s Progress supply ships resemble the country’s manned Soyuz vehicles in form. But instead of carrying cosmonauts and astronauts, Progress capsules are filled with water, air, food, and scientific equipment for crews, as well as propellers to maneuver at the station when needed.
At the end of their missions, Progress spacecraft are intentionally exorbitant and destroyed, burning in Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.
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